Information For Authors

APPROACH AND SCOPE

The CUADERNOS DE CURIHAM journal, ISSN 2683-8168 (online), edited by the Rosario University Center for Hydro-environmental Research (CURIHAM), College of Exact Sciences, Engineering and Land Surveying, National University of Rosario, Argentina.

This is an annual journal that adheres to a continuous publication model, each article is published once it has been reviewed, approved and formatted. Each volume includes articles published from April to March of the following year.

The aim of the journal is to disseminate basic and applied research papers, as well as technological innovations in the hydro-environmental field. In addition, this publication may include the results of field research studies and interdisciplinary studies, as well as papers on the state of the art on the subject area.

The topics covered are: Fundamental and Fluvial Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics; Surface and Ground Water Hydrology; Urban Hydrology; Sanitary Engineering; Experimental Hydraulics; Water Supply Systems; Stochastics; Planning and Management of Water Resources; Environmental Assessment; Water Pollution and Quality; Water Policy and Legislation; Regional Hydro-Environmental Management; Hydraulic Works, Construction Methods and Techniques; and all the issues related to the hydro-environmental sciences. The content of this journal is intended for researchers, teachers, graduate and undergraduate students and professionals in the areas related to its subject.

The articles and technical notes submitted for publication in CUADERNOS DEL CURIHAM must be original unpublished works, that are not simultaneously being considered for publication elsewhere. Authors are responsible for the content, originality and authenticity of their articles or technical notes.

 Authors do not pay any fees to the journal for processing, submission or publication of their articles or technical notes.

If you have any questions, please contact revistac@fceia.unr.edu.ar or revistacuriham@gmail.com

 

PAPER CLASSIFICATION

  • Article: unpublished scientific document that deals with and communicates for the first time the results of a successful research or innovation, whose contributions add to and increase the current knowledge on hydro-environmental matters. Up to 25 pages (including tables, charts and figures)
  • Technical Note: unpublished document that presents a review of a specific topic or an implementation of a standard technique or work derived from professional practice in the hydro-environmental field. Up to 10 pages (including tables, charts and figures)

 

GENERAL INFORMATION

Articles and technical notes will initially be subjected to plagiarism detection and/or self-plagiarism, and subsequently to peer-review by a Review Board.

The final version of the article should be preferably written in Spanish, Portuguese or English.

Papers and all correspondence should be sent by email to revistac@fceia.unr.edu.ar, as well as revistacuriham@gmail.com.

The file format should be A4 page size (210mm x 297mm) with margins. Top: 4 cm; Bottom: 3.7 cm; Left: 3 cm; Right: 2.5 cm; Header 3 cm; Footer: 2.3 cm.

The body of the article should be in Times New Roman 10 with single line spacing, except for the title, which should be in Times New Roman 14, and the authors’ data, which should be in Times New Roman 12.

First page: one column. Following pages: 2 columns wide: 7.5 cm and 0.5 cm spacing (figures or tables can be included in a column wide if needed).

A format template is available for authors. LINK to TEMPLATE

 

TEXT STRUCTURE

Use Microsoft Word from the Office 2007 suite or higher, single spacing, and double spacing when formulas are involved.

In the main text, tables, figures, equations, etc., a period should be used as decimal separator. If preferred, the thousands separator can be marked with a blank space.

Units will be expressed according to the International System of Units. The forward slash (/) will be used to express, for example, m³/s (the form m³s-1 is not allowed). The previous instructions apply to the main text, tables and figures.

Paragraphs should have justified-text alignment and begin without tabulation or indentation. There should be a blank line between paragraphs.

Do not use the header and/or footer for references or notes. If possible, avoid the use of foot notes.

First Page

Title in the language of the paper (in both languages). Up to 2 lines. Begin in capital letters and continue in lower case (as a sentence), bold with centered alignment, in Times New Roman font, size 14. Colon (“:”) should not be included in the title, as it would imply the following sentence as a subtitle.

Author(s)’ personal information. Full name and surname, institutional affiliation, city, nationality, e-mail and ORCID. Authors names should be in bold, centered alignment, Times New Roman font, size 12. For each author there will be a superscript at the end of their surname, that will connect to the affiliation data. These should have a blank line in between and be in Times New Roman font, size 10. See template.

Each author´s ORCID number must de added. If you do not have it, the ORCID number can be created by registering on the page https://info.orcid.org/researchers/. The ORCID number is a persistent, unique and free identifier for people to use while participating in research, scholarship and innovation activities.

 

Abstract: no more than 200 words both in its final version and in English (if the paper is written in English,

the abstract must be in English and Spanish). Portuguese is the alternatative third language accepted.

Keywords in both languages (up to 5).

Titles

PRIMARY TITLE: it must be written in capital letters and bold, leaving two blank lines above, one below and aligned to the left. Times New Roman font, size 10.

SECONDARY TITLE: it must be written in lowercase and bold, leaving a blank line above, one below and aligned to the left. Times New Roman font, size 10.

TERTIARY AND SUBSEQUENT TITLES: they must be written in bold, lowercase, leaving a blank line above, none below and aligned to the left. Times New Roman font, size 10.

Following Pages

The paper should have, as far as possible, the following layout: Introduction; Objectives; Materials and methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions and Bibliographic References. Attachments are not allowed.

Format of Figures, Tables, Photos, Maps

Tables, images, photos, charts, figures and maps should be adapted to the available space respecting 1 or 2 columns wide.

List the objects (figures, tables, photos, maps, etc.) in the order they are mentioned in the text, e.g. Figure 1, Figure 2, etc. Enumeration such as Figure 1a or Table 2a is not recommended.

Tables should be in Times New Roman 9 pts, in black and white or grayscale with sharp contrast and include borders delimited by a continuous line.

The descriptive text, names and numbering of tables, charts, photos, maps, figures, etc. should be in Times New Roman 8 pts in bold and centered. For images, photos, charts, figures and maps, they should be placed below the object. For Tables, it should be above it.

Tables should not be images, but editable text.

The images, photos, charts, maps and figures should have a resolution of 300 DPI in color (size not less than 13X18 cm) and should be a single element per figure. Images, photos, charts, figures and maps should be sent in a separate file (accepted formats: JPG, PNG or  TIFF, EMZ format is not accepted).

The text within the figures should be equivalent to Times New Roman 8 or 9 pts. in its definitive size.

Format of equations

Equations should be numbered consecutively as quoted in the text, with Arabic numerals, for example: equation (3). A blank space should be left above and below each equation. Equations should be made with the Word Equation Editor. Other equation formats will be rejected. Equations as image or text are not allowed.

Equation Style: Math.

Use Times New Roman font for Text, Function, Variable (italics), Matrix-vector (bold) and Number.

Use Symbol font for Uppercase Greek, Lowercase Greek (italics) and Symbol.

Equation size: Normal (9 pts); Subscript/Superscript (7 pts); Sub-subscript/Superscript (5 pts); Symbol (14 pts), Sub-symbol (10 pts)

 

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements will be included after the text and before the references.

Quotations and References

The APA (American Psychological Association) Standards 7th edition will serve as guidelines for quotations and references.

Quotations:

Within the text, use the Author-Date quotation system. All quotations should correspond to a bibliographic reference. The bibliographic list should not include sources that are not referenced in the text.

When an organization or institution that is commonly known by an acronym must be cited, the complete name of the organization should be included in the first citation followed by the abbreviation between parenthesis, or between square brackets if it is included in the bibliographic references. From the second citation onwards, only the acronym is required.

Example of first citation of the text:

(Instituto de Hidrología, Meteorología y Estudios Ambientales [IDEAM], s.f.)

Example of following citations:

(IDEAM, s.f.)

References

The title of the reference list should be “REFERENCES” (the word must be capitalized and bold, with no underlining or quotation marks).

The references should be in Times New Roman 10, single line spacing, with French indentation of 0,25 cm., justified in two columns, as in the body of the text. Blanks spaces should not be used inbetween references.

The list of references shall be in alphabetical order by author surname, with hanging indentation. If more than one work by the same author(s) is included in the reference list, they will be arranged by year of publication, starting from the oldest.

If the first author coincides in several references, they will be arranged taking into consideration the rest of the authors’ names, in alphabetical order.

If more than one work by the same author(s) and the same year of publication are included in the list of references, they will be arranged by title. The letters a, b, c,... following the year in brackets will be used to differentiate them (2010a, 2010b, etc.).

Printed book:

Surname , N. (year). Title. Publisher.

Online book

Surname, N. and Last name, N. (year). Title. Publisher. DOI or URL

Book with editor:

Surname, N. (Ed.). (year). Title. Publisher.

Chapter of a book with editor:

In the case of a book that includes chapters by different authors, each chapter should be considered as a separate resource in the references.

Author’s surname, N. (year). Chapter title or entry in N. Editor’s surname  (Ed.), Book title (xx ed., Vol. xx, pp. xxx-xxx). Publisher

Periodical publications (journals, periodicals, newsletters, etc.) with DOI: 

Surname, A.,Surname, B. y Surname, C. (2019). Title of the article. Publication, Volume (volumen number), page number – final page number. https://doi.org/xx.xxxxxxxxxx

If the article of the journal has no DOI and comes from an academic research database, the reference should end with the page range. In the event the article of a journal has URL but no DOI, the URL should be included at the end of the reference.

Newspaper article (print version):

Surname, N. (date of publication). Article  headline in the newspaper. Name of the newspaper in cursive.

Newspaper article (online version):

Surname, N. (date of publication). Article headline in the newspaper. Name of the newspaper in cursive. https://www.xxx/

Unpublished printed dissertation/ thesis from the University:

Surname, N. (year). Thesis title [Doctoral or Master's theses]. Name of Academic Institution.

Published dissertation/thesis from an online database: 

Surname, N. (year). Thesis title [Doctoral or Master's theses, Name of the Institution that granted the degree]. Database.

Websites with static content: 

Surname, A., Surname, B., and Surname, C. (May 20th, 2020).  Title of the website article. Website. https://url.com

Websites with frequent updates: 

Surname, A., Surname, B., y Surname, C. (May 20th, 2020). Title of the website article. Website. Retrieved the day of the month of the year from https://url.com

Page from a government website without individual authors: the specific agency in charge of the website should be included as the author, provide a date for the website, as specific as possible, in case of not having a specific date, write n.d.  and end the reference with the URL.

Instituto de Hidrología, Meteorología y Estudios Ambientales. (n.d.). Cambio Climático. Ministerio de Medio Ambiente. http://www.ideam.gov.co/web/atencion-y-participacion-ciudadana/cambio-climatico 

Reports:

Surname, N. (year). Report title: Report subtitle (Report no xxx). Publisher’s name. URL

Seminars, Conferences and Conventions:

Surname, N. (Full date of the conference). Title [description of the p]. Name of the conference and place.

Moderated symposium:

Last name, N. (Full date of the conference). Title. In N. Last name (Moderator) Subject. Title of the symposium. Place.

Un-moderated symposium: 

Last name, N. (full date of the conference). Title. Title of the symposium. Place.

Youtube video: 

Author’s name. [Youtube user name] (Date). Video title [Video]. Youtube. http://youtube.com/video-url

Social networks (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter):

Name of the person or group [@user]. (Month, Day, Year). Entry content in italics limited to the first twenty words including hashtags [Audio-visual description]. Name of the social network. https://link.xxxxxxxx

Power Point presentation: 

Last name, N. (year). Title of the presentation [PowerPoint slide]. Website name. https://www.xxxx.

 

AUTHORSHIP ROLES

Each author’s contribution shall be stated at the end of the article. Every role that intervened  in the research process should be indicated, ensuring their visualization and recognition when communicating results.

Fourteen (14) categories are defined to identify these authorship roles  with the purpose of showing the individual contributions, reduce disputes between authors and facilitate academic participation. In order to achieve this goal, Cuadernos del CURIHAM adheres to the use of CRedit (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) to describe the type of contribution made by each author during the process in a systematic way.

Authors submitting work should take into consideration that it must have been read and approved by all named authors and that each one of them must agree with the submission to the journal.

Authorship roles can be presented in chart or text format.

Example of authorship roles in a chart format (stating the roles in which each author contributed with ‘x’ marks:

 

Author’s full name

Academic contribution

1

2

3

4

5

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11

12

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Vvvvvv Yxxxxx

X

 

X

X

X

X

X

 

X

X

 

 

X

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Yyyyy Zzzzzz

 

X

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X

X

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X

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  1. Project administration; 2. acquisition of funding; 3. Formal analysis; 4. Conceptualization; 5. Curatorship of data; 6. Writing, reviewing and editing; 7. Research; 8. Methodology; 9. Resources; 10. Writing - original draftt; 11. Software; 12. Supervision; 13. Validation; 14. Visualization.

 

Example of authorship roles in text format where VY and YZ would be the author’s initials.

 

VY and YZ carried out the research process, data collection, analysis, conceptualization and completed the

preparation, creation and drafting of the work together. VY contributed in the conception of the idea; YZ contributed in the study design and data collection, analysis and interpretation. Both approved the version to be published and are able to respond to all aspects of the manuscript.

 

STATEMENT OF ORIGINALITY

It is essential to submit the Statement of Originality signed by all the authors of the paper. Please send it to: revistac@fceia.unr.edu.ar and curiham@gmail.com.

 

AUTHOR´S PERSONAL INFORMATION

The author(s) of the paper must send their complete affiliation data, postal address, e-mail address, specialty or area of knowledge, current positions and degrees (Engineer, Master, PhD. Name of the degree in full and awarding entity).

Suggestion of possible reviewers for the evaluation of the work is requested indicating name and surname, e-mail and affiliation.

Please send it to: revistac@fceia.unr.edu.ar and revistacuriham@gmail.com